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Representative Experience

Mr. Gross is a Senior Member at The Cavanagh Law Firm where his practice is devoted to insurance coverage, personal injury, and bad faith litigation. His representation of the insurance industry spans both first-party property and third-party liability claims arising out of all types of insurance coverage. Mr. Gross has particular expertise with respect to coverage issues related to the interstate motor carrier transportation industry. He serves as national and regional coverage counsel for large motor carrier transportation insurance carriers and has advised clients on coverage and bad faith litigation in Arizona, Kansas, New Jersey, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Alaska, Georgia, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Virginia, South Dakota, Utah, and California. In many of these states, Mr. Gross has appeared before local and federal courts pro hac vice.

Currently, Mr. Gross is Chair of the Arizona State Bar Motor Carrier Transportation continuing legal education program and is one of the two managing authors and editors of the Arizona Tort Law Handbook. He has published over twenty articles and books relating to insurance coverage, liability defense, and claims practices including chapter eight of the national Claims Adjuster’s Automobile Liability handbook published by West in 2009 and chapter nine of the two volume book titled Handling Insurance Cases published by West in 2011. He has been listed by Best Lawyers in America, Southwest Super Lawyers as a rising star since inception, Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, and maintains an AV Preeminent rating with Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Gross is a member of the CPCU Society, the Trucking Insurance Defense Association (TIDA), and the Arizona Association of Special Investigation Units.

Four attorneys were named as 2016 Rising Stars by Southwest Super Lawyers. Justin Niedzialek was named in the Employment Litigation: Defense category; and Steven Gross, Jordan Plitt and John Wittwer were selected in the Insurance Coverage category.